Acetaldehyde is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.
You can make 455 anagrams from letters in acetaldehyde (aacddeeehlty).
First recorded in 1875-80; acet- + aldehyde
For this reason it is possible to determine the freezing point curves of acetaldehyde and paraldehyde.
The substance investigated was acetaldehyde, C2H4O, in its relation to paraldehyde, a polymeric modification.
The decomposition of pyruvic acid into acetaldehyde and carbon dioxide has already been fully discussed (Chapter VI).
acetaldehyde is not of much importance in itself, but is useful as a transition.
Starting in the one case with fused paraldehyde, and in the other case with acetaldehyde, the same freezing point, viz.
acetaldehyde, which is halfway between alcohol and acid, may also be easily oxidized to acetic acid.
This is in harmony with the fact that the polymerisation of acetaldehyde is accompanied by evolution of heat.